(The historical proofs of the pagan origin of “christmas” are given at the end of this article under “references”.)

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Thinking of “christmas” brings up a lot of memories of eating, drinking, and numerous worldly pleasures, yet to be quite honest, not a single remembrance of these traditional indulgences has to do with the birth of the Savior of the World. The reason is very simple, because “christmas” is not about the True Christ, and never has been. It is a menagerie of ancient pagan customs that have been forcibly and deceitfully labeled as such, like hammering a square heathen peg into a round opening in your pure Bible.

If I put a swastika on a cross,

does that make the swastika Christian?

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“Come out from the unbelievers and be separate,

says The Eternal,

and do not touch pagan things . . .

Then I will receive you.”

2nd Corinthians 6:17

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The Truth is in TheWord.

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Look at the word itself . . . “christ-mass“. “Mass” means the end of a life; a funeral or a death, not a birth, as a Roman church “mass” is the repeated ritual for the death of the Messiah, not His birth. Right from the start, thusly, “christ-mass” begins with a lie. Who is the Father of lies? . . . Satan. This day is actually a celebration of Christ’s death not birth. Who was it who first rejoiced at Christ’s death? . . . Satan . . . and later the Satan worshiping leaders of the fallen church of Rome.

What people are unwittingly saying in the greeting “merry christ-mass” is . . . “Happy Messiah’s Death!” or “Aren’t you glad that the Messiah was murdered!“

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“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

Yet, there is another who bears witness of me.”

(Two Witnesses, the Father and the Son, Together in One)

John 5:31-32

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The above quote from the Messiah was offered in the debate as to whether or not His testimony alone constituted Truth, as the Divine Law states, “Two or more witnesses is required“. (Deuteronomy 17:6)

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“Those on earth rejoicing at the Two Witnesses death,

making merry, and sending gifts to one another.“

Revelation 11:10

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Many devout theologians of the book of Revelation believe that the “Two Witnesses” spoken of here are the Father and the Son, or that of the Old Testament and the New Testament. As Christ is The Word (both Old and New Testament), as well being the Father and Son together in One, then the “Two Witnesses” is also a reference to Christ Himself, alone. Can you think of any other day of celebration in the entire world which is better known universally for giving gifts to one another; “making merry“, and that over someone’s death, other than the holiday “Christ-Mass” (Christ-death) ?

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“Those on earth rejoicing at the Two Witnessesdeath,

making merry, and sending gifts to one another.”

Revelation 11:10

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If “christmas” were really about Jesus of Nazareth, then malls would have an actor dressed like Jesus in the middle of them instead of the fictitious “Santa Claus”; children would sit on the Messiah’s lap instead and tell Him what they wanted as a blessing; there would be apostles instead of elves; and Jesus of Nazareth would be at the very end of every “Thanksgiving Day” parade walking with a staff and sheep, instead of “Santa Claus” riding in a sleigh filled with allures of material gratification.

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Who is “Santa Claus” anyway?

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You guessed it, of course.

The Messiah’s direct competition and nemesis.

Satan himself.

“Santa” riding a sleigh in the sky (pulled by snakes, not cute reindeer) originated from the pagan god “Saturn” (the Death Angel; the Devil), celebrated a thousand years before Christ at the end of December as “Saturnalia”, the most celebrated gift-giving holiday of the year, which the pagan Church of Rome “christianized” as “christ-mass” at the very same time they removed the celebration of Passover and changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, to honor the popular sun-god of pagan society of that day. The pagan death-god Saturn, like “Santa Claus”, also rode a chariot in the sky, had a long white beard, and was often depicted with a child on his lap . . . . . to eat them for his sacrificial dinner!

(Old bearded Saturn-Satan-Santa Eating a baby)

Scandinavians later adapted Saturn into “Odin” (Lucifer), the bearded god of war, death, intoxication, and seduction.

The Europeans adapted “Odin” into “Robin the Hobgoblin” (or Satan), who announced his dreaded arrival with the warning laugh of “Ho! Ho! Ho!”

Incredible isn’t it! We willingly put (sacrifice) our children on the lap of Satan (Santa), bring pagan idols (trees) specifically decorated with silver and gold into our homes and church sanctuaries, as specifically forewarned not to in Jeremiah 10:2-4, where these pagan objects become the center of attention and festivities . . . just like the pagans did 4000 years ago . . . and on the very same calendar day . . . all the while we have the audacity to call these exact same pagan customs, practiced on the exact same calendar day, “christian” !

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“When the Eternal your Creator drives out from before you the pagan nations which you go to possess, and you replace them and live in their land, beware that you do not follow or imitate their pagan customs or ways of worship, inquiring ‘How did they worship their false gods? Saying that you will worship the True Creator likewise.’ You shall not worship the Eternal your Creator the same way the pagans worship their false deities.”

Deuteronomy 12:29-31

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If I asked my spouse if it would be okay with them to celebrate our anniversary on the same calendar day as my previous spouses’ anniversary, and with the exact same customs, specifically designed to my previous spouse’s memory, with the excuse of being accustomed to celebrating anniversaries on that day and in that manner, what do you think my new spouse’s reaction would be if I did so? Do we not realize that the same jealous feelings are felt by our heavenly Father and His Son about these pagan holidays and customs of our previous gods? We know this is the case with the Father’s jealousy, because these very words were recorded for this very reason . . .

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“When the Eternal your Creator drives out from before you the pagan nations which you go to possess, and you replace them and live in their land, beware that you do not follow or imitate their pagan customs or ways of worship, inquiring ‘How did they worship their false gods? Saying that you will worship the True Creator likewise.’ You shall not worship the Eternal your Creator the same way the pagans worship their false deities.”

Deuteronomy 12:29-31

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and this . . .

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“You have let go of the Commands of your Creator . . .

So that you may follow your man-made traditions.”

Mark 7:8

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To those Christians who see the Truth in theses words of the Messiah to the degree to which they keep the Seventh Day Sabbath (Saturday) instead of the one instituted nearly four hundred years after Christ by the Church of Rome (Sunday) to honor the popular pagan “sun-god”, to those Christians who annually and repeatedly say from the altar in their Saturday Sabbath keeping church during the month of December, “We know that Christ was not born in December, yet we are going to continue to act like it anyway, just as the lost pagan world does“, is this any different than saying, “We know that Saturday is the Sabbath, yet we are going to worship on Sunday anyway, just as the lost pagan world does“?

A founder of a modern day Saturday Sabbath worshiping church, Ellen White, had this to say regarding the scripture of 2 Kings 17:33-36 . . . “They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods, according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel, with whom the Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying: “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them; but the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall offer sacrifice.“

Regarding this above scripture, Ellen White said, “The message of the prophet offered no encouragement to half-way measures. Only by most decided reformation could the threatened judgments be averted.” Prophets and Kings, Page 331

Regarding the scripture, “All that live godly in Christ will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12) Ellen White said, “Why is it that persecution (of the church) seems in a great degree to slumber? The only reason is that the church has conformed to the world’s standard and therefore awakens no opposition. The religion which is current in our day is not of the pure and holy character that marked the Christian faith in the days of Christ and His apostles. It is only because of the spirit of compromise.” The Great Controversy, Page 48

Referencing Revelation chapter 18, regarding compromise with the Church of Rome, Ellen White said, “They justified their course of sin.” The Great Controversy, Page 654

Such is the justification of pagan idols and customs (sin) in God’s Sabbath Keeping churches Today, which are specifically contrary to the specific commandments of God and Christ to not do such things.

If we claim we are compromising with the world’s pagan customs in order to win people over to Christ, then will we simply win over compromising people and fill Christ’s church with compromising people. On the other hand, if we take an unpopular stand against the world’s pagan holiday customs, as we do with the pagan Sunday sabbath, in order to righteously honor the Father and the Son with all possible purity, then will we likewise win over un-compromising people, who are willing to take an unpopular stand against the pagan world for the integrity of the Father and the Son, and thusly these kind of un-compromising believers will fill the Creator’s church instead. Which of these two types of people would the Messiah prefer in His Church, compromising or un-compromising ?

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“Do not love the world or the things in the world.

If anyone loves the world,

the love of the Father is not in him.”

1st John 2:15

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The world’s revelrous, debaucherous, materialistic, and pagan “christ-mass” directly competes for focus with the sacrificial, righteous, and un-pagan Messiah. Atheists, as well as nightclubs widely known for sexual immorality, decorate their homes and businesses with these same pagan idols as compromising churches do. This is proof itself that these decorations and customs do not belong in a pure church. The Savior of the World was not born on December 25th, the day of the god of Saturn, nor at anytime in history to instigate a commercial pagan enterprise, which the day is universally celebrated as, nor was the Savior born to promote additional worldly debauchery, materialism, drunkenness, and violence, as the day has always been celebrated, for thousands of years before He was even born.

(“Black Friday”, the beginning of the “christ-mass” season.)

I was in Wal-mart last spring at “easter-time”. I noticed symbols (idols) of rabbits and eggs everywhere, yet I did not see a single representation of the Messiah. “Easter”, I discovered, was originally “Ishtar”, the pagan celebration of springtime fertility, hence rabbits and eggs. What amazed me is that this tradition is more than 4000 years old (traced specifically to the fallen Nimrod, the pagan great-grandson of Noah; the conduit through which nearly all worldwide pagan “holiday” rituals began), and here we are doing the exact same thing, with bunnies and eggs, on the exact same calendar day, 4000 years later! Wow! Nothing has changed in 4000 years! The exact same pagan tradition has been passed on from parent to child all this time, only now we try to claim that the exact same pagan customs, practiced on the exact same pagan calendar days, are “christian” instead!

Nimrod, after he died, was immediately deified by the pagans and worshiped as “Baal” (the “sun-god”), hence Sunday worship in churches to this day, the sun-god being the number one direct competitor in the Old Testament for the affection and worship of the TrueCreator. Nimrod’s wife Semiramis (also known as “Ashtoreth”), was the number two Old Testament competitor for the Father’s true worshipers. After she died, she too was deified, allegedly reborn at sunrise on the spring solstice out of a red egg laid by a menstruating rabbit. Her reborn name was “Ishtar” (Easter). To commemorate this, the pagans held a sunrise worship service at the beginning of spring (birth) and painted eggs red, from the blood they obtained from the babies they had just sacrificed to death in their violent and grotesque pagan ritual. When we tell our children to paint their “easter” eggs, this is where the “tradition” (pagan religious ritual) comes from, therefore, how can it possibly be “christian” ?

“Cupid” was the nickname of Nimrod’s son Tammuz, who had sex with his mother Semiramis in another pagan religious ritual. When you celebrate “St. Valentine’s Day” of alleged “romance”, it is that of incest between a mother and a son. When Tammuz (Cupid, Baal’s son) died prematurely, in the prime of life, this was commemorated for thousands of years on or about December 25th as a funeral mass (false god’s son-mass), at the beginning of winter (or death), by cutting down a tree, in its prime of life, making it into a commemorative idol, which would then be decorated with silver, gold, and candles (manufactured from the fat of children sacrificed on their pagan altars), in the very same way as trees are decorated today with silver and gold ornaments for the very same calendar day celebration!

This “holiday”, that of the death of the son of Baal, later turned into “Saturnalia”, which later turned into “christ-mass”, and is still celebrated on the very same calendar day, and with the very same silver and gold decorated trees. This is why the scriptures forewarned . . .

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“The Creator says . . .

Do not imitate the ways of the pagans . . .

They cut down a tree . . .

and decorate it with silver and gold.”

Jeremiah 10:2-4

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“The children of Israel did evil in the sight of THE CREATOR . . .

They forsook the Father . . .

who had saved them from the pagans and their ways . . .

From BAAL and from ASHTORETH.”

Judges 2:11-13

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December 25th is really the “Tammuz-messiah-mass” for the death of the son of Baal (the messiah of Baal; the notorious, blood thirsty, supreme pagan god, Satan, or Saturn), not for the birth of the True Messiah, the Divine Creator’s Son, the Messiah from Nazareth, whom all scholars agree was born in the fall, not the winter, during the Feast of Tabernacles. Toward the end of the third century, when the Church of Rome wished to increase their attendance (and thereby collections), they simply claimed to convert millions of pagans at a time by sprinkling them in crowds of tens of thousands with “holy water”, never baptizing them after teaching them individually the Father’s true commandments, nor genuinely verifying an individual’s conversion by their demonstrated repentance, all of which the New Testament scriptures repeatedly insist upon for true conversion.

To graft these millions of pagans into the now fallen church of Rome, which quickly became a global financial and political enterprise, the corrupt church leaders adapted nearly all of their newly unconverted parishioners’ pagan religious rituals into the church as new “holidays” (holy-days) to compromisingly pacify them with pagan familiarity. To claim that December 25th is what was spoken of in scripture as “Today in the town a David a Savior is born” (Luke 2:11) is comically blasphemous . . . if there is such a thing.

“Christmas”, “Easter”, “St. Valentine’s Day”, “St. Patrick’s Day”, “Halloween” . . . all came about after the church of Rome became paganized in the third century. These “holidays” were never celebrated by the apostles, or the Savior, or any of their followers for the first four hundred years of the Savior’s church. Why? Because they knew better. They knew they were 100% pagan religious rituals.

Do we think we know better than the apostles did, who personally walked with Christ, or have we simply become compromising with the pagan world?

Seeing how the answer is obvious, why aren’t are our actions of stern repentance of these pagan religious rituals, which occur on the very same pagan calendar days, equally obvious and immediate?

“Christmas”, in fact, was outlawed numerous times in the past by Creator-fearing devout Christian governments, leaders like Oliver Cromwell, and the earliest Christian reformers, specifically because of its clear pagan origins and debaucherous pagan customs, which were at one time, only celebrated by openly non-christian pagan revelers. Not only was “christmas” outlawed by the early Christian reformers in Europe, it was adamantly outlawed by the first Christian immigrant reformers in America as well, due to its pagan origins, lascivious debauchery, and rampant violence, just as it is celebrated today, with the very same pagan customs, on the very same pagan calendar day. What a victory for Satan that we have since forgotten to shun this pagan enterprise as unholy, as the righteous Christian founders did!

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“Come out from the unbelievers and be separate,

says The Eternal,

and do not touch pagan things . . .

Then I will receive you.”

2nd Corinthians 6:17

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Charles Spurgen, one of the most highly acclaimed pastors of all time, respected by all of the denominations of his day, said this on December 24, 1871, regarding the notorious annual pagan “Baal-messiah-mass” holiday . . .

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“We do not believe in ‘christ-mass’,

rather we abhor it!

It is unscriptural and superstitious.

It’s authority is un-divine.“

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My wife is from a devout Christian “sister” church of the same denomination as the church we attend here in America, yet from one on an island nation that refuses to bring these ancient pagan customs (idols) into the Holy Sanctuary of the Church. Her congregation, being on a small isolated island, has had little outside influence to hinder the purity of the initial church planting, which occurred more than a hundred years ago. Here in America, because we all grew up in the middle of a most compromising nation, compromise became commonplace in the church as well. So subtly and gradually have we become accustomed to compromise, that we don’t even perceive it anymore. Here in America, even in Sabbath keeping churches, pagan “christmas trees” have appeared not only in the sanctuary, yet on the elevated platform (altar) itself. Why is this the case, seeing how “christmas trees” are, undeniably, originally idols of Tammuz, the son of Baal, which are forbidden to be worshiped in the Bible?

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Simply put . . .

Is this Christ’s church or Baal’s church?

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No wonder the Messiah said that people love their traditions more than the commands of their Creator.

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Even if a church were to not bring in pagan trees and wreaths, yet still falsely focused December’s attention on the birth of the Messiah as the rest of the lost and uninformed pagan world does, all the while knowing and acknowledging that the Savior was born in the fall during the Feast of Tabernacles and that the December 25th date is specifically of pagan origin, then they are still giving in to the ways of the pagan world, trying to make something unholy, holy, trying to please the traditions of men, rather than the commands of the Creator, who said, “Do not worship Me as the pagans do” and “You have let go of My commands for the sake of your man-made traditions.“

If I were a goat farmer who wore a shirt with a goat head in the middle of a pentagram, innocently thinking I was promoting my industry, and then someone pointed out to me that the very same symbol was used for devil worship, should I continue to wear it once I knew better saying, “Well . . . It doesn’t mean that to me” ?

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The question should be . . .

“What does it mean to The Creator?”

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Remember, the Eternal Father wasthere when the very same pagan customs, on the very same pagan calendar dates, were originally used for pagan worship.

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He does remember, even if we don’t.

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The Creator personally looked down upon the Baal child sacrifices on December 25th. He saw firsthand the child blood painted “Ishtar/easter”eggs. He witnessed with His own eyes the incestuous Tammuz-tree Baal-son tradition, the very day it started.

We may not see the pagan connections in these things, nor even care if we do, yet I assure you He does. That is why He specifically said . . .

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“When the Eternal your Creator drives out from before you the pagan nations which you go to possess, and you replace them and live in their land, beware that you do not follow or imitate their pagan customs or ways of worship, inquiring ‘How did they worship their false gods? We will worship the true Creator likewise.’ You shall not worship the Eternal your Creator the same way the pagans worship their false deities.”

Deuteronomy 12:29-31

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Do we not think the Creator finds it odd to bring in these very same pagan rituals and symbols (idols) into His church . . . into His sanctuary . . . on the very same pagan calendar days . . . all the while we call it the worship of Him rather than Baal?

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Are we more interested in pleasing men . . .

Or the One who Created us?

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“The Creator forgave past sins of ignorance . . .

Yet now, in better knowledge,

He commands Everyone to repent.”

Acts 17:30

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As you will see from the references at the end of this article, “Santa Claus”, the “christmas tree”, wreaths, holly, poinsettias, and many other “christmas” symbols (idols) come directly from pagan rituals for the worship of false gods, on the very same calendar days, which directly compete for, not compliment, our Creator’s and Savior’s attention, servitude, and affection. It might be a different matter if the symbols were simply secular historically (non-religious) in their origin (like a turkey at “Thanksgiving”), yet because they are the identical ancient forms of pagan religious worship rituals of false gods, which we are doing on the exact same calendar days in a religious endeavor, I think it is a much more serious matter than we may first believe.

If we claim “christianity” as our title, then no doubt we see the world as a “fallen” place. What makes it fallen? The breaking of the Creator’s laws. What are the most fundamental of the Creator’s laws? The Ten Commandments. What are the Very First of these commandments? #1 “Have no other gods before me.” #2 “Do not use pagan idols or customs.” . . . Hummm? . . . All the other ten commandments are being broken in the world today, have we forgotten about these first two being broken right under our noses?

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“You shall destroy what is pagan . . .

For I am jealous for my creation’s affections.”

Exodus 34:13-14

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If my spouse is jealous because I spend a lot of time talking to an attractive co-worker at a party and I think they are overreacting, should I continue my behavior anyway, or rather care about what my beloved thinks and alter my actions accordingly?

Would I want at my wedding party even one old lover as a guest (or a representation thereof), there to be seen by my new devout spouse in our holy and pure church?

There is a nightclub in my city that is well known for sexual immorality, and they have the best “christ-mass” decorations in town! This should tell us something about whether or not the holiday is really about the Righteous Creator’s Son.

In Exodus 32:1-8, when Moses left Aaron in charge of the Israeli community, which had just left Egypt, he fashioned a calf out of gold (the pagan religious tradition of the Egyptians) and then said that the Hebrews were to worship the True Creator in this exact same pagan religious way. Aaron was obviously proven wrong. When Moses returned, he said that the pagans among them had caused them to pervert the Holy Way in which they used to worship the Creator, rebuking them to never, ever, again worship the Eternal Father with pagan customs. Moses then ground the idol into dust, put it into the water supply, and had the Israelis drink it until all of it was gone.

I’d say the Creator takes pagan holidays and customs very seriously.

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Additionally . . .

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“If your brother is grieved because of your food . . .

You are no longer being loving . . .

It is good to abstain from meat or wine . . .

Or anything . . .

If they cause your brother to be grieved.”

Romans 14: 15 & 21

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We are commanded not to offend our Christian brother in any matter, even if we are not offended by the matter ourselves. A wine drinker (hopefully) can go one meal without drinking wine to suit a recovering alcoholic at the table. A meat eater should be able to eat vegetables for one meal to please a vegetarian host. A True Christian should be able to live through the month of December without bringing pagan “christmas” decorations, or the inaccurate focus of the Messiah’s birth during that false time, into the church for four Sabbaths, which does offend those who realize that these customs and dates are of pagan religious origin. After all, the fallen church of Rome has “christmas” trees and the exact same pagan decorations throughout their churches in December as the immoral nightclubs do. Do we really want to follow their example?

I cannot think of one person who would not attend my church in December if the pagan symbols, rituals, and music were not brought in and practiced during that time, yet I can think of several people who are right now not attending in December, specifically because theses pagan symbols and rituals of Baal are inside of Christ’s church during these pagan calendar days.

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“You shall not worship the Eternal your Creator

the same way the pagans worship their false deities.”

Deuteronomy 12:31

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The Father is holy. What is “holiness”? Purity. Would I want to drink a glass of orange juice with only one percent gasoline? If not, then why would I want to bring in even one percent of paganism into The Creator’s Holy Church? In His book, any impurity, even one percent, makes something holy, un-holy, and un-clean.

Do I love and protect my body from one percent poison more than I protect the Creator’s Holy Church from one percent paganism?

The paganism in “christ-mass”, with its pre-Christ silver and gold decorated tree idols, celebrated gleefully and universally by unrepentant, violent, rebellious, and lascivious openly non-christian revelers, should be enough proof that “christmas” is not Divine. Saturn, Tammuz, and Baal, and their abominable self-indulgent holiday, is still being honored, in the exact same way, and on the exact same day!

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